Seattle-Wayne

Putting screens on both sides creates the feeling of swinging inside a “phone booth” feel 🧵:

23 years ago tonight, in an Oval Office address, George W. Bush announced the start of the Iraq War. 4,492 American service members were killed in the years that followed. 32,292 were wounded. At least 200,000 Iraqi civilians died. The humanitarian impact was immense. America wasted 9 years and 3 trillion dollars on a war that never should have happened—a war predicated on a lie, pushed by warmongering neocon politicians, and paid for by everyday people. Imagine what that $3 trillion could have bought here at home. Imagine the decade we could have spent focusing on America, our people, our place in the world. Imagine the lives our service members, stolen from us, would have lived. But instead, the president took us to war. Yet another costly quagmire in the Middle East. I voted against the Iraq War. I knew the White House would lie to Members of Congress and voters alike to manufacture the pretext for a conflict—and they did. Now, Iran is shaping up to be Iraq 2.0—new lies, new bloodthirsty politicians, still paid for by American families. Yesterday, we learned that Trump wants another $200 billion for his war. That's after Congress already gave the Pentagon more money than it even asked for in the budget. Enough is enough. It is not too late to learn from the past. Stop this madness. Bring our troops home. End this war.

Travel Baseball Daily Diary: March 19th Dear Diary, today in Connecticut I saw a video of 8 year olds getting on a plane for their first tournament of the year. High school baseball teams haven’t even had tryouts yet It’s 35 degrees nobody is even practicing outside yet. My son is 8, sometimes I have to tie his shoes before school. But planes for tournaments in March. Sure.

This Is I-5 near SR-18. Both vehicles were headed NB when the black car lost control and T-Boned the Acura, also traveling NB. The Acura hit the guard rail, went airborne and landed in the SB lanes. No serious injuries. Tows on scene. - NJ

Boarding the plane, excited for that window seat you paid extra for 😌 You get to your row… and someone’s kid is already sitting there, crying their eyes out because “they want the window.” Sorry, not sorry. Move your child. I’m not giving up the seat I specifically bought just because tears are flowing. If the window was that important, you should’ve paid for it for your kid.